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Title: alias for email
Post by: Dole Glaze on April 04, 2000, 06:58:38 PM

Is it possible to setup email alias in 3.1. If so how. If not will it be possible on the next version.

Thanks Doyle,

Title: RE: alias for email
Post by: Charlie Brady on April 05, 2000, 12:21:20 PM

Dole Glaze wrote:

> Is it possible to setup email alias in 3.1. If so how.

There were some contributed patches for email aliases, which I have included with other stuff in my RPMs which you can find at http://e-smith.gormand.com.au/.

Or you can simply create them by hand. Log into the server as root, then do:

cd ~alias
echo user@someplace.domain > .qmail-aliasname

(echo user1 ; echo user2) > .qmail-otheralias

and you will have two aliases, one off site, the other on-site.

> If not will it be possible on the next version.

E-smith 4.0 includes email forwarding from user accounts, but
doesn't support email aliases. But because the structure of e-smith 4 is more modular, you can add an email alias add-on module. You can find one at  http://e-smith.gormand.com.au/4.0-preview/.

There is also a module at the same place which will automatically create firstname.lastname@your.domain aliases whenever you set up a user account. This module can be used with e-smith 3.x as well.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you strike any problems.

Charlie